Supreme Court · 2020 INSC 268 · Decided 4 March 2020
State of Goa v. Narayan V. Gaonkar & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2020 INSC 268 · [2020] 4 S.C.R. 526
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1866/2020
- Decided
- 4 March 2020
- Bench
- ASHOK BHUSHAN, NAVIN SINHA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Land Revenue Code
Headnote
Suit - for declaration of ownership - The plaintiffs- respondents filed a suit for a direction to delete the name of 'Forest department' from the survey entry No. 11/1 of a Village and to declare the plaintiffs as the exclusive owners of the said property - The had filed a written statement- cum-counter claim refuting the claim of the plaintiffs and claimed that entire suit property was in possession and belonged to the Forest Department - In the counter-claim, it was pleaded that plaintiffs were wrongly recorded as co-occupants - The Trial
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